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32% in Illinois Say Current Government Policies Have U.S. Economy on Right Course

While President Obama still earns a higher approval rating in his home state than he does nationally, Illinois voters aren’t optimistic about the federal government’s current policies.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely voters in the state finds that only 32% say the current policies of the federal government have put the U.S. economy on the right course. Just under half (48%) disagree and feel these policies have derailed the country from the correct path. Twenty percent (20%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here) Still, these findings are slightly more optimistic than results found nationally.

The survey of 750 Likely Voters in Illinois was conducted on September 21, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/-4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.

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